I heard Costas retelling his conversation with Dungy who asked his players (80 of them….pre roster thinning) who owned a gun and 65 players raised their hands. This was somehow horrible and shocking to Costas and I guess Dungy.

Why would you not know the encryption status of the string in question?

I’m not sure I’m a good person to ask. Aside from some server-side Java authentication work awhile back, most of my crypto work was academic, number-theory type stuff. I can look at an algorithm and tell you how strong it is, or whether a proposed modification will alter vulnerability, but specific implementation details are going to be fuzzy for me.

right now all connection strings in old applications are encrypted. I’m moving apps to virtual servers, and there really isn’t a need to encrypt all those strings on internal servers. Since the code automatically decrypts everything. I want to keep encryption on installed apps, but remove it on internals. I don’t want to change every business object, so I thought there should be a way to determine the encryption status of a string.

I can do this in a try catch block, but that adds overhead to every failed transaction. Seems there might be a way to check. Meh, just trying something new.

RTW was all I wanted from him, Hotspur. Even if he has to be dragged kicking and screaming to signing the bill, it’s a signed bill. I’m not saying I’d campaign for, donate to, or like the guy, but he’d have at least done the thing I voted for him to do.

What really puts me over the edge is the fact we have Boehner running things on our side. Really? Really? That guy needs to retire, continue drinking his lunch and keep his shoulders straight when he putts.

Scott, I got a Mossberg 500 Flex Tac in 12 gauge. Got it through Davidson’s. just enter your ZIP code, what you’re interested in and specify “show in stock only”. When you find what you want you go one step further and they’ll show offers from local gun shops in the radius you specify. The first time I did this I found a local gun shop I had never known about. They’re consistently 10-20% lower than the big name shop near by. Accept the offer, leave a deposit and they ship it to the store. When it gets there they do the background check and take the rest of your money. Here’s a search I did today:

I ordered it Saturday, got the call Wednesday from my local gun store and picked it up at noon today. I was in the store for 20 minutes. Maine: come for the lobster and guns, stay for…I’ll get back to you on that real soon.

Mare, in my world those people are called insurance companies. My case for today was not approved by insurance company which is why I’m hanging around. Without going into detail it was a minimally invasive procedure not approved. In my experience they will readily pay for a more extensive procedure she does not need yet. Fuckers.

I am a stay-at-home mom. Because “I don’t work”, the Pathology consultant tells Hubby it is easier to move us than to move say, some pathologist who has been a fucking barnacle at the hospital for ten years, because his wife (an OB doc) works there too, and it would be a financial hardship to move them. Never mind that she can find a position in any hospital. Fucking idiots…

BRB – screwing with the beancounters on my Personal Health Assessment. As far as any of you know, I’m 5’0″ tall, I weigh 100 pounds, I have 9 kids under the age of 18 living in my house, I have 9 chronic health issues, but I’m perfectly healthy (they wouldn’t let me enter a 2 or 3 digit number), I’m 99 years old, and my waist circumference is 75 inches.

I remember years ago, reading an article in National Geographic about North Dakota. It showed people dealing with a Winter that had temps dipping to -40F. Frickin’ insane. There was a picture of this one lady who created a special hood for her parka. She made it a long, fur-lined tunnel that she could just barely see out the end of. This was so her face would not freeze when she went to get her mail.

I couldn’t remember the last time we took a vacation so I had to go look at my photos folders. Had to go back to 2008. Ugh. No wonder I feel like I’m always on the edge of a nervous breakdown. I NEED RELAXATION NOW!1!

Farg, you’re referring to a snake, aren’t you? One of those thingies with a noisemaker on its ass.

We don’t have those either. Amusingly, we do have hognose snakes. One of their defense mechanisms is to beat their tails against the grass to sound like rattlesnakes. The hognose isn’t poisonous, but it pretends to be a poisonous snake that doesn’t even live here.

More prayers for Mrs. Pupster. My grandma had her hister out in her early 40s (which I think makes it 50-some years ago now) and lived to a ripe old age. As surgeries go, it’s one of the safer ones, and way few side effects than a gall bladder-ectomy.

We got to meet Mrs. Pupster last Summer at Lapeerpalooza and she is the sweetest nicest lady ever. I can’t believe she has to have two surgeries so close together (didn’t she just have her shoulder done?). BOO.

Mare’s Musings

February 18, 2018

I’ll tell you, I had to turn the Olympics off last night. The gay overload with the gay flags and gayness and the gay skier and the all about gay was too much for me. How does being gay have ANYTHING to do with skiing unless you’re purposefully landing on a pole?